- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:14:22 -0500
- To: nir dagan <dagan@upf.es>, dd@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
> >Writing both D-link and longdesc is in the first place motivated >by backward compatibility with HTML 3.2 and lower who don't >recognize longdesc. Authors should recognize that in HTML3.2 >it is _impossible_ to provide long descriptions of images, and should >be happy that with HTML4.0 it is possible. If they want to do hacks >in order to get the impossible in HTML3.2 they should do these hacks >on their own. > There is some sediment that D-Links are useful in describing OBJECTs. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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